I better question in terms of the teeth of the laws is, are there any real consequences to an operating system provider just ignoring them and not providing any kind of age verification in their software whatsoever?

The question I assume will get answered soon enough by GrapheneOS since they have told everyone asking for OS age verification to go pound sand.

Didn’t they shitcan the age verification thing in systemd and they fire the guy who put it in? Or was that just a joke post?

He didn’t go MAGA, he always was. Same for Sorbo and same for Jim Caviezel.

JFC, LoL! I completely missed that! 😂

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that this is likely sarcasm and not someone who seriously feels this way.

There is a galaxy of difference between a kid who thinks they can get away with being a brat with no consequences and a kid who has the level of emotional problems that can lead to self harm. Not to mention the difference between a parent who is just teaching their kid that there are consequences to their actions vs a parent who simply doesn’t care about whether or not they are harming their kid with excessive punitive actions.

That’s an entirely different situation though. Picky eater is more of a clinical issue. And brute forcing such things never works. Kid being an asshole however, well that, that we can fix reverse assholianism.

I dropped them for DDG over a year ago. Never have had a cause to regret.

DDG lets you just turn off the AI crap.

Turn off history on youtube. From that point on you will only get shorts from the people you’re actually subscribed to and nothing else.

Oh and even with history turned off when you start a regular video from one of your favored creators, the sidebar will continue to suggest videos from other people you are not subscribed to. So you will not be completely isolated. But it will tone down the brain rot considerably.

As a Linux user I feel attacked. 😝

The stupidest thing is that ChatGPT originally told him to pay them too. He had to get creative with the prompts in order to get actionable suggestions.

Any such thing, even if it were to emerge tomorrow, would be swiftly destroyed by all the other platforms that already exist. Because it would be an absolute threat to their business model.

Following your example to its logical conclusion.

There is something we can do. We can hold the other grenades accountable for their explosive nature. Something that has traditionally not been done. Which has led to the situation as it stands now. The company line has always been grenades explode, that’s just their nature.

We’ve been indoctrinated into believing that if we step in and tell a man to back off from harassing a woman that we are “cock blocking” them and that is impolite. It’s not and men aren’t entitled to being allowed to talk to women just because they want to.

They are cheap for a reason…

I really don’t understand what the value they see in putting age checks on operating systems. Like where is this coming from? Who whispered in their ear that OS age checks are something that need to be done?

To be clear, these are Apple users. Most of them will take just about any abuse Apple is willing to throw their way.

Oh he’s anti-Trump alright. But that’s just meaning that he wants to take Trump’s place.

With the inability to obtain hardware for new PCs and other computing devices (for reference see how hard it is to get a hold of a steam deck these days). I’m not sure if the steam machine is ever going to come to fruition while the AI boom continues to fuck up the market.

This is basically Apple’s version of a Chromebook. It’s an iPhone in the shape of a laptop.